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Identity Ordering and Metastable Clusters in Fluids with Random Interactions

Soft Condensed Matter 2019-05-01 v1

Abstract

We use Langevin dynamics simulations to study dense two-dimensional systems of particles where all binary interactions are different (AID) in the sense that each interaction parameter is characterized by a randomly chosen number. We compare two systems that differ by the probability distributions from which the interaction parameters are drawn: uniform (U) and exponential (E). Both systems undergo neighborhood identity ordering (NIO) and form metastable clusters in the fluid phase near the liquid-solid transition but the effects are much stronger in E than in U systems. Possible implications of our results for the control of the structure of multicomponent alloys are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1812.02620,
  title  = {Identity Ordering and Metastable Clusters in Fluids with Random Interactions},
  author = {Itay Azizi and Yitzhak Rabin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.02620},
  year   = {2019}
}
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